As Sourcers and Recruiters, we face increasing costs for searching and messaging on the dedicated professional networks and decreasing performance on job boards. It’s time to review the sourcing capabilities of the “other” major Social Networks: Twitter, Facebook, and Google-Plus. These Social Networks do not identify as the designated sites to recruit professionals, yet they contain huge volumes of professional …
Searching for Persons on the Internet Using Semantic Markup
Since search engines index all sorts of pages, finding the pages only with profiles of people is a challenging task. Our usual way to find profiles only is: Narrow down the search to a site that has profiles (X-Ray). Add some keywords common to all profiles and rarely found on other pages (often in the titles or URLs of the profiles), and …
Googling for LinkedIn Profiles
This is a refresher on searching for LinkedIn profiles via Google (“X-Raying” LinkedIn) and links to a Custom Search Engine for those who don’t want to write complex Boolean Strings. LinkedIn has many public pages that Google indexes: profiles, company pages, job posts, and more. Public member profiles have URLs that include either “/in” or “/pub” after “linkedin.com” – for example, https://ch.linkedin.com/in/sarahsantacroce and https://www.linkedin.com/pub/sarah-santacroce/72/b33/508 To find …
Top 25 Fake Profiles
In this post, I am sharing some observations about the new (and unusual) public LinkedIn pages in the “Title Directory” and ways to discover them by X-Raying. Note: To try out some of the following content and access the right links, it’s best to log out of LinkedIn. The LinkedIn.com home page has links to various directories: It includes a Title …
Boolean Strings Sourcing Community Milestone
The LinkedIn Group Boolean Strings – The Internet Sourcing Community, along with the Boolean Strings Ning Network, is the largest (by far!) community of professionals that talk about all things Sourcing. A few days ago our LinkedIn group passed 30K members. Compared to the time when I started the group, back in 2008, the Internet “traffic” is much heavier, yet we have kept …
Overcoming LinkedIn Limitations – Webinar
Overcoming LinkedIn Limitations Double-Webinar: Lecture – Wednesday June 24, optional Practice – June 25 In 2015, we are witnessing tighter limits on using LinkedIn for Sourcing and messaging than ever before. All accounts, basic and paid, and even LIR (LinkedIn Recruiter) have newly introduced restrictions. Depending on the account, members face the limits on the numbers of search to perform …
Understanding the Universal Search on LinkedIn
LinkedIn provides a universal search box on top of the home page, to “Search for people, jobs, companies, and more…“ You can search for “everything” or select the type of objects to search: People, Jobs, Companies, Groups, Universities, Posts, or Inbox. In this post, I will cover the searches for each type of the object in the Universal search dialog. If …
Googling for Resumes is Obsolete
There are still many resumes on the Internet. Google is still by far the best search engine. However, Googling the world wide web for online resumes has stopped being productive for the majority of locations and industries, with few exceptions. I’ll share some thoughts, as to why Googling for Resumes is Obsolete, shortly. Let us first look at a typical Google “Boolean String” …
Your Favorite Boolean Strings
I have created the above word cloud out of the “Favorite Boolean Strings” submitted by the members of our Boolean Strings Sourcer’s Network on the Ning platform. If you are a member, you can see everyone’s “Favorite String” when looking at their profile. You can also search for members’ search strings in the Member search dialog. Prompted by the recent “Boolean Strings …
Boolean Strings Basics Webinar – New Dates! – June 16-17
Hello Booleanstrings.com Followers: You are invited to attend my most popular presentation – Boolean Strings Basics Webinar – on June 16, 2015, and an optional hands-on Practice on June 17.Boolean search syntax and algorithms keep changing. Online references become obsolete. It is time to brush up on your searching skills if you haven’t lately. This webinar covers the core Boolean search functionality. It can …